A lithographic fan, with bone sticks, the guardsticks set with mirrors, and decorated with artificial flowers, the leaf edged with a fringe of leaves made of feathers, the verso of the leaf stamped A.B.C. Brevete in blue - 12in. (29cm.), French, circa 1857; and a gauze fan signed Garson, painted with a bride, with mother of pearl sticks - 14in. (36cm.), circa 1885 (2)

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A lithographic fan, with bone sticks, the guardsticks set with mirrors, and decorated with artificial flowers, the leaf edged with a fringe of leaves made of feathers, the verso of the leaf stamped A.B.C. Brevete in blue - 12in. (29cm.), French, circa 1857; and a gauze fan signed Garson, painted with a bride, with mother of pearl sticks - 14in. (36cm.), circa 1885 (2)

Lot Essay

The first fan is probably the design patented by Andre Caumont in 1856 as "Pour un systeme d'eventail forman un bouquet de fleurs naturelles ou artificielles, patent no. 60, see pp. 182 and 187, Maryse Volet, L'Imagination au Service de l'eventail, Vesenaz, 1986

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